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SUSE Acquired by EQT, Google Becomes Newest Platinum Member of The Linux Foundation, MintBox Mini 2 Launches and More

SUSE is being acquired by EQT. SUSE.com
notes that with this partnership "SUSE expects to be equipped to further exploit the
excellent market opportunity both in the Linux operating system area as well
as in emerging product groups in the open source space." SUSE CEO Nils
Brauckmann will continue to lead SUSE, and "the SUSE business expects
staffing, customer relationships, partnerships, product and service offering,
commitment to open source leadership and support for the key open source
communities to remain unchanged."

The Linux Foundation recently announced that Google has become a Platinum
Member of the foundation. From the press
release: "'Google is one of the
biggest contributors to and supporters of open source in the world, and we
are thrilled that they have decided to increase their involvement in The
Linux Foundation,' said Jim Zemlin, executive director, The Linux
Foundation. "We are honored that Sarah Novotny, one of the leading
figures in the open source community, will join our board—she will be a
tremendous asset.'"

MintBox Mini 2 launched yesterday. The MintBox Mini 2 is the 4th generation
of the miniature, ready-to-use, fanless mini PCs from Compulab and Linux
Mint. The MBM2 is based on the quad-core Intel Celeron J3455 and ships with
the latest Linux Mint 19 "Tara" Cinnamon pre-installed.
Compulab provides a 5-year warranty on MBM2 and donates 5%
to Linux Mint for each MBM2 sold. See the press release for specs and more details.

The OpenShot Video Editor has released
version 2.4.2, which features "new effects, tons of bug fixes, and more stability
and performance enhancements!" New improvements include seven new effects
(crop, hue, color shift, pixelate, bars, wave and shift), auto audio mixing,
auto rotate, improved audio playback, improved stability and more.

BusyBox version 1.29.0 has just been released. According to post
on the Appuals site, "This new release might end up seeing more serious
use as part of boxed network routing solutions. For instance, companies that
manufacture a Linux-based router that doesn't have a proper GNU userspace
could include BusyBox with it and therefore provide a useful coding
environment."